The space vector pulse width modulation (PWM) (SVPWM) techniques enhance the performance of multilevel multiphase inverters. With multilevel (threephase) inverters and with (two-level) multiphase inverters, it is widely accepted that the typical SVPWM strategies have an equivalent carrier-based PWM (CBPWM) counterpart, which produces identical results. However, the conclusions reached in the papers that show these cannot be applied, nor even extended, to SVPWM techniques with more than two levels and three phases. This paper shows that the most widely accepted multilevel multiphase SVPWM techniques have a fully equivalent CBPWM counterpart, which consists of a phase disposition PWM (PDPWM) with an appropriate zero-sequence injection scheme. Closed-form expressions to calculate the zero sequences are provided. The proposed modulation techniques are simulated and then implemented in a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), showing that the equivalent CBPWM techniques produce identical results as the original SVPWM ones, but with a significant reduction of hardware requirements. The proposed methodology can be generalized to other multilevel multiphase SVPWM techniques. Index Terms-carrier-based pulse width modulation (PWM) (CBPWM), field-programmable gate array (FPGA), multiphase drive, space vector PWM (SVPWM), voltage source inverter (VSI). NOMENCLATURE Vectors and matrices are printed in bold type while normal type is used for scalars. Lower case is used for normalized variables. Voltages are normalized with respect to the multilevel voltage source inverter (VSI) voltage step V dc and times with respect to the switching period T. Variables related to reduced vectors, i.e., (P − 1)-dimension ones, are written in Greek letters. Superscripts (k) denote the phase, i.e., the vector component, e.g., v r k is the component (phase) k of vector v r. Numeric subscripts (j or m) are used to denote the position of vectors and indexes within a sequence. A hat (v) denotes a vector with its components sorted in descending order.